I would be estatic if I saw this many garlic bulbs coming up..yes! I need2 transfer my dafadil plants too.thanks4 the reminder! cheers from Australia. 😁
Not sure if it was mentioned, but if a plant has a patent you can’t propagate and sell the plants, but you can propagate plants for yourself. Love propagating plants. I just started Haskaps last year and they look good this spring. I think I have to move filberts as I have them too close together and I think they spread/sucker. Planted European and now I see they are working on American hybrids. They take a long time to produce.
Sup, just wanted to say I discovered your channel last week and it's absolutely precious. You're gardening in a difficult northern climate, ramble a lot (both apply to myself as well) and most importantly you display a huge amount of knowledge and enthusiasm about growing food. And the dry humour helps a lot too ;) keep it up!
Stool Mound 2' high wow. Glad u mentioned the specifics. Very helpful video, always find you to be encouraging of the Simplicity of how others can do. Many UA-camrs I think just want to conflate lots of info to boost their ego.
Finally someone talks about the importance of genetic diversity while cloning plants! We got strawberry propagation taken care of by growing them from seed, and it's interesting seeing all the slight differences in the plants, almost imperceptible, hopefully when we start crossing a wider range, things will really start looking interesting~
Using the water to expose the roots was very cool! First time I'm learning about mound propogating. Looking forward to doing this with my largest blueberry bush.
I'm still waiting for the snow to be gone to start my first year on my new property. Got plenty of seeds starting and cuttings rooting in pots indoors. For currants and many other bushes you should have a pretty good success rate if you just cut the new growth whips and stick them into soil and keep watered, so you don't have top do radical mesaures like digging up the whole mother plant. You can easily get a dozen cuttings, and even if half of them fail, you still got a bunch of easy free clones!
Absolutely! The currants and elderberries in particular did really well like that last year. I believe I have some footage of this kind of cutting/plugging in my grass to swale video. Found some of it, I'm sure there's more, but here's a timestamp: ua-cam.com/video/evwRPvcD6Qg/v-deo.html
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Haha, yeah like that exactly. I wouldn't have the heart to dig up a perfectly good producing bush unless I was actually moving it.
Hey Keith! While I am still getting over how stark your food forest looks in the Winter (and you still remember what is what), I am really quite excited for your first show of color. I have mini-daffodils in flower and yellow is my favorite color even in large amongst large blocks of weeds. If you want to tease roots apart that are bound by soil, then soaking them in water can be a big help. Man I hope your dog takes an interest in UA-cam real soon because these one man productions must be killing you. Cheers!
They say Aussie Shephards are some of the smartest dogs on the planet. So we're going to start training her how to do video editing in Sony Vegas Pro V18.
Yeah lol those are something like 12 years old. They have almost no bottoms, holes everywhere. My wife laughs at me because she'll buy me new shoes and I'll just still wear those ones. But why not, they work. I mean, kinda.
We’re doing this on the land we are living on going on 7 years. We took what was here and divided it to propagate it. And we allowed all the wild tree seeds to grow to help nitrogenate the soil. Then the goats helped contain them and regenerate the earth. Now we have a very fertile Avocado forest lol... we need a stick that reaches 30+ feet to reach the avocados🤦🏻♀️🌳🥑 My husband thinks he can make one out of a bamboo shoot! 😂 Love the new artistic intro on this video too!! That really makes the channel stand out 🙌☺️ Shared your video with Jonna Jinton’s group. They’re loving it 😁
Thanks! You can never make everyone happy because on reddit someone said: "... a production tip- if the music is poor quality, just go with silence. A couple seconds of the music and I felt a headache start, I could not watch." I personally really enjoyed that part. Can't please everyone I suppose. Glad you liked it. End of the day, if I enjoyed making it that's all that matters to me to be honest. The video did really well in terms of many metrics such as view time, so I think overall most people did enjoy it. For music, I'm trying to cut back on using it, but videos with just a dude in a garden swinging his phone around with no music ends up looking amateurish. It just does. I'm slowly getting better at this (I think), but a big part is knowing WHEN to add music and when not to. I think sometimes nature scenes with just birds chirping are amazing and I will always do that. However, the drone only takes video, so not using music in the background just seems weird. So I think I'll keep doing little "artistic" segments like this - in the beginning, in the middle, at the end and just play around with it. My job is very technical (engineering) so these videos are actually a really nice creative outlet that I'm enjoying exploring a bit. Thanks for the comment, I'm happy at least someone else liked that bit.
Oh and I also REALLY appreciate you sharing the channel with other groups. That probably helps more than anything, more than patreon, more than joining the membership program, etc.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Ahahaha tell that person on reddit I’m a musician, a music therapist & a psychologist and your intro song is rad and that person is sad! Ahahaha You really gotta go with what YOU like! You will transmit your joy to the videos!! Which translates into new followers. For every intolerable person there are 20 of us who value your vides and value your creativity. It’s fun! Never be afraid to share your talent to the world. So some music feedback hoping to help: Ok it will be inevitable for you to use music because you are a creative person! Your engeneering background is purely intellectual. And that’s great. Speaking with silence from the garden is perfect. And with the nature sounds. The frogs, the birds…everything but the dogs lol… The left lobe of the brain is activated by that intellectual aspect. But the music activates the right side, the creative side! Thus: Full brain usage! You can stick to the intro, the transitions where you place words, the transitions where you show drone footage, or garden footage without speaking (for example if you are pouring water on something or your family pops in, etc). You can never go wrong with piano. Not jazz, that really irritates the mind and is terrible for learning or enjoying an informational video. There is a TON of awesome music on www.epidemicsound.com/. It is $15 a month but you could ask that dude from Reddit to pay? :D Seriously, just practice ad do what you like ;) You can never go wrong there!
Check out the acoustic Guitar songs from this artist. The entire video has awesome music and she downloads it from Epidemic Sound. She’s from Norway you guys will enjoy the scenery: ua-cam.com/video/3_Rw3PmEw_Q/v-deo.html
Honestly thanks so much, I appreciate the feedback so much, especially from someone who's passion is in that specific area. Maybe you can be my music mentor lol. I actually love piano. I played until I was in grade 5 i think. I hit the grade where you can get a high-school music credit. I then picked up guitar to play Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd stuff. But my love has always stayed in piano. It's on my bucket list to pick it back up.
Thank you Kieth. Propagating is obviously cost effective and has the potential to build the food forest. Another great video! Every time I watch I learn something new. Glad to know ahead of time I’d need two or more varieties to get better fruit. Now I need to as Professor Google how many varieties of Haskap exist in Ontario😉
I had great results with stooling apple rootstock by cutting the bottom out of a plastic bucket (more eco friendly alternatives available...?), putting it over the main stem and filling it to the top with compost as the stems grew. In winter I then pulled the bucket off and the compost just fell off the rooted stems! Then you just snip the stems off at ground level and start again. May need modification for bushes but if you can find a suitable container to go round it you should be able to leave your prize haskap mother plant in place? Going to try it on juneberries this year!
Yes this is called Air layering (which I for some reason called Air Mounding I think? My brain was thinking one thing, mouth saying something else). I mentioned it in the video when I was talking about genetic diversity in the middle of the video. I didn't show it because I'm not doing any right now, but it's a great method for rooting trees especially.
I think that the hascap propagation is awesome! They are very expensive here in Newfoundland where I live so propagation will be key! Also, after watching one of your other videos last night seeing how unshredded leaves block out O2 from the soil I ran out today (only around -1 today and ground not frozen), I used pitchfork to air-rate the 6inches or so of leaves on my bed. The bed's lack organic matter (acid/dry/rocky/peaty) so trying to add more organic matter. I picked up about 50 bags of leaves back in November but due to a very wet Fall, could not shred them. Thanks for all the tips!
Excellent video! I would love to see a video explaining how to prune fruit trees and also one about growing fruit and nut trees from seed. If you have time of course!
Thanks for showing the haskaps, i feel very relieved seeing the loose bark on your healthy ones as i feared mine may have died over winter as i planted my first(4 varieties)last fall and they all look similar.
You do have a lot of gold information. Thank you for sharing. I'm building a homestead in ontario and unfortunately I will have to move to a biger land because of the ridiculous by law that the township have on my area. I have over 6 acres and they did not allow me to build a 60x200 greenhouse.
OMG that's insane. It's crazy how we allow such control on our lands. The problem is, most people don't care enough anymore to lobby government for change. We just shrug and move on. It's hard to get real change going when most people are so complacent. My old property was in an area where you couldn't have chickens, food gardens in the front lawn, etc. People would call bylaw on you. Thankfully a little further in the country and its better. Here at least. I know some areas are different. You are on more land than me, and for someone to say you can't have a greenhouse... crazy. You probably already have an outbuilding and you are only allowed one?
I jammed some jostaberry cuttings in the ground in the late winter, should see if they take soon (will have to try mounding some time). Overall, our yard is a little further along than yours, but not by much. Our ribes are pretty awake and most of the fruit trees are awake (either blooming or leafing out). Our serviceberry is about at the same point in budding out. Apples are just starting to size up their buds. I need to put out more daffodils, most of ours are midseason or later. We had a bunch of crocus, but the rabbits dug up and ate all the bulbs (whoops haha). I'll have to see if the rabbits will eat garlic or rhubarb if I put it out in the yard. Guess it depends on how hungry they are... they'll eat the tops off of flowering onions in our back yard. They leave the daffodils alone so I'm quite content putting those everywhere. I'd recommend having some seedling varieties in the garden too. We have seedling american plums and manchurian apricots here, excellent for pollination. I'll probably graft some other varieties onto them when they get larger.
When you say to get more plants to diversify genetics, I think you meant more plants from different sources? 10 plants (of the same type) from one source are likely all the same genetics. I just found your channel, I appreciate you are open about it being an experiment. Thank you for sharing.
I meant when you get apples, don't just get gala because you like them, get some gala and some spartan and some honeycrisp, etc. It spreads out the bloom and harvest time. For stuff like haskaps, don't just get boreal. Get blizzard and beauty and beast and arctic and many different varieties. Many plants, berries especially, will crop larger if pollinated from genetically different plants. For trees like paw paws, they ONLY crop if pollinated by a different variety. So try to diversify not only the kind of fruit, but also the specific varieties of those fruit. Obviously this is easier the more space someone has, but just try to do whatever you can. It sure helps when your harvests are spread out.
I'm in Saskatchewan....nothing blooming or even breaking soil in my space yet. Rhubarb hasn't even broken surface yet. Snow still on the ground. Forecast is +3C & +4C for a high this week! (-9C at night). Usually don't split plants until May....I have a LOT of irises to split this year!!!
I saw a haskap bush at the farmer's market, this channel got me so hyped up I asked too many questions and got it half off with an armful of baby strawberry plants as well. It's already got little fruits on it (Zone 9b), can't wait to try it. I wonder if it will make babies with my blueberry bush...
No haskap/blueberry babies, haskaps are actually in the honeysuckle species (Lonicera spp.) Zone 9b is also really pushing it, they tend to be grown up in zone 8 (which is pushing it). I'm curious how they will do, and if they will have enough chill hours to fruit.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I never expected to see any haskaps this far south, but it's a 2yo bush and the sellers seemed to be having enough success raising them. My town on the bay has infamously cloudier and shittier weather than the surrounding area, maybe she'll be happy here long-term in spite of the official zone designation.
2000 heads of garlic! my man :) i thought i grew a crazy amount at 200 lol. you need to build yourself a roadside farm stand and i hope the wife is Italian
It just keeps coming up. I planted 200 about 3 years ago, and I thought I got it all (each year, I think this but each spring I find out just how wrong I was). So then each spring I take these clumps and spread them about, but then I miss half of them again, etc. Some clumps this year I actually planted at the school. I'm curious if they'll know what it is. I just had too many.
Garlic just looks like a slightly bluer, heavier grass. Foxtail has some red around the stems and the purple of garlic is kind of the same, so it's most likely the garlic will be mistaken for another variety of grass.
If you're worried about the haskaps with fewer roots, maybe prune the tops a little. Might give them more of a chance to recover. Not a pro but have picked up that idea along the way. Not sure if it'll work here.
Yeah I should probably cut them back to 1-2 buds on each branch ajd just fully reset it and let it build roots this year with lower transpiration loss from leaves.
Yesterday I was inspecting one of my blackberries that had tip layered itself and discovered that something had eaten the roots of the mother plant! I'm thinking I'll leave it connected by that umbilical cane and see if it can re-root the mother (now that I've filled the void where the roots had been), but I'm not sure if that will work 🤔
Oooh now that's interesting. I don't think I actually know if that will work that way (I'm thinking not) but I'd be really interested to know if it does.
Believe it or not, I checked in on that blackberry yesterday and the mother plant has re-rooted and it's reinvigorating a second cane on the mother that I had presumed dead, but must've been dormant (and probably hanging on by a thread)
I just started last fall. I will add only 1 or 2 more trees because space is scarce on my 5/8 acer(40-50 fruit and nut trees). I need to start on my guilds, 1 variety of tree at a time. Hope i don't just end up with a weed patch
How do you feel about the serviceberry fruit? I've never had it and have been curious about adding it to my collection. I've heard that it's kind of like blueberry meets almond? You didn't mention pull sprouts/sprout jacking, which is the propagation method that I'm most excited about. Kind of a happy coincidence that you did a propagation video, since the video I'm putting out this week is on pull sprouts. Stoked about using that method to rapidly propagate my relatively rare Incan crops. Gonna be a game changer for my nursery, too!
I've never done pull sprouts or air layering so those methods weren't in the video. I will try them though, ajd check out your video on it. I have watched a few of your vids. For serviceberry there is a huge difference in variety. For example Amelanchier Canadensis is largely a bird tree. The berries are still quite good but quite small, 1cm diameter, actually maybe smaller. A bit mealy but really tasty still. Almost impossible to get a ripe one, the birds pick them clean immediately. These berries may not appeal to the average person who only knows stuff like blueberries and strawberries and super sweet fruit. Amelanchier Alnifolia (aka Saskatoon berry) has fruit almost double the size, and is very good tasting. Someone who only knows super sweet fruit would still very much enjoy these.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Thanks for the info! I might start with alnifolia because of the broader appeal and then branch into canadensis as I'm ready to start playing around a bit more, or when I can afford to feed to birds exclusively. 🤣 Stoked to hear that you've watched some of my stuff! I'd love if you have any feedback for me, given how much further along you are on this UA-cam journey. No pressure, though. Just if there's anything obvious that comes to mind. I was finally able to upgrade my mic, so super excited that I can cut all the wind noise!
Great video content!! I hope it's not rude to ask / mention...but did you get a new camera? When you pan around it's very dizzying now. I hadn't noticed it in prior videos. Just a heads up from a viewer perspective... :)
I'm not sure why it was so bad this time, I noticed that also. I'm not sure if it was on youtube post-processing side of things, because when I was in my editor it wasn't as choppy. I will definitely make a conscious effort to stop walking around with my phone and talking, but more set up the shot, talk, set up another shot, talk, etc. It is much better. Something I have definitely learned.
There are a couple of other plants that I would be interested to see how you propagate out. High bush blueberry, gooseberry, goji berry, Saskatoon berry, and cherry bushes(specifically the Romance series). Do you propagate those as well? I am thinking of pods of haskaps this year. Plant my 5 varietals in groups for little pods of 6 weeks of production. I am all about the extended season using multiple cultivars of the same fruit. Gotta feed the growing boys and walking them through the orchard to fill them up sounds ideal to me. I tried rooting softwood cuttings of my four currant varietals last year and am hoping for some success this year. Thank you for the wonderful video. I have read about stool mounding but had not seen a video of it.
I only have 3 blueberries and they don't do well in my soil, not propagating. Stool mounding works though. Same with gooseberry, cherry and goji. For Saskatoons, stool mounding will work if the plants are in bush shape. Sometimes they are shaped like trees with only 1-3 major branches coming out. Sometimes they are more like bushes with 8+. If they are more tree-like then stool mounding obviously isn't ideal. For those I would do either hardwood cuttings, softwood cuttings, or seed saving. I don't have a video on hardwood/softwood cuttings mostly because I'm not really doing them that much right now. I'm really set for trees - I wouldn't even know where to put them to be honest. Maybe I'll try some in a few years for the old man walking trail, when it's ready to be planted out.
I actually haven't tried stool mounding elderberries yet. I think I'll try it this coming year. That being said, when I pruned them last fall I just plugged cuttings into the ground and I got nearly 90% or higher success rate from them. So maybe that's the ideal method for those, it's even easier.
My next video looks at this method (plugging hardwood cuttings), and even looks at some elderberry cuttings from last April and how they are doing 1 year later.
I bough a couple peach and plum trees this year and pruned them after planting. So i stuck the branches in the ground and most of them struck roots and started blooming and pushing leaves
Often that's a sign of moisture still residual in the branches. Once that dries out, then you'll know if the cutting can continue sustaining itself (if it rooted). The success rate for peaches especially is really low like this. If someone wants to make it more successful, you can try to put it in an area with warm soil but cool environment. So something like in a basement or garage with a seed heat mat under it. The heat will help the rooting speed up, and the cool temps will keep the plant from waking up and leafing out. Ideally it spends as long as possible as a stick in soil, so that it can make roots before it starts losing water via transpiration through the leaves. Even upwards of half a year like this is good.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy How do you know when it’s ready to be taken out of the basement and planted? While it’s in the basement does the plant need a light source, such as a grow light?
It doesn't need much light until it leafs out. Once it leads out then it should be under lights or brought outside. The cool garage is an attempt to delay leafing out.
Currants and gooseberries will root really easily from cuttings. It is 'said' that Cherry trees will root from cuttings (I'm trying that out from prunings taken last Autumn, so I don't know yet if this is successful yet), and I have seen a video of someone taking apple tree cuttings (in pots with polythene bags over top), the gardener showing good results afterwards. I don't think there is any reason why you shouldn't try turning any sort of pruning into a cutting (I'm a serial cutting-taker myself and always put prunings to the test). Yes, it is very true, residual moisture will make the vast majority of 'fruit cuttings' bloom, push leaves, and give the impression they have rooted - only for them to succumb to late Spring sun. However...that said... I have had a few successes over the years. My very first success was when I was a kid and stuck a twig of a rare Shepherd's Bullace in the ground (an Olde Worlde British plant, like a small golden Victoria Plum) in my parent's garden. It was my first cutting ever, done in jest, and it grew to 20ft before my parents moved and I last saw it. Where I live now, I've raised about half a dozen new Hazel trees, a few new sloes for the hedgerow, and even one Alder tree - all from prunings transformed into hardwood cuttings. What makes a handful of Hazel cuttings work and thousands of others fail, I don't know. Never been able to work it out. The first Hazel success was a 4 inch cutting - the last was a 3 ft long branch and merely stuck in the ground to steady a fence. The latter has been growing well for 3 years now. Nature is weird. Currently, I have about 3500 cuttings in the ground mostly taken from various fruit, but also some ornamental and hedging plants. The latter 2 categories rarely fail to strike roots, but I quite expect a few fruit/Hazel plants to succeed as well. Quite honestly, if you're willing to take the time and can happily shrug off many or the whole lot failing, it's fine. Do it.
Hey! Love your channel! I'm in the mountains of upper east Tennessee. I noticed you hauling water, as we do here also. I have many thoughts on directing the creek with pipe to several catchment systems up hill from the areas. We have planted the low maintenance trees on the forest edges. I am currently observing our "cleared area" scraped back to clay, how the water flows and where to berm and swale. Getting back to the point. Do you have any catchment systems? Like holding tanks and pipe, gravity fed from up creek? I love the pond addition! Thanks so much!❤🌎✌
I do have a little sump buddy pump that I can hook up if I need to get more water, but I almost never use it. Hauling water jugs is my gym membership. As far as diverting local waterways, I think it's a pretty risky business. Definitely square that up with your local conservation authority first. You will be impacting lands below you, and could wipe out entire ecosystems. You could also divert watersheds away from areas and towards others. Both of these can have really large ecological consequences. Now, obviously just doing this in a really small way won't impact things. Dipping a pump in and filling a micro pond over 10 minutes by stealing 2% of the flow for those 10 mins, that obviously is a lot different than digging in a permanent tap-off of the stream for example.
I did consider the impact downhill. Luckily we have several spring heads that feed the creek above me, and a spring head on our property which we plan on using as our water source for the house. Stone mountain is brutal on well digging and starting cost is 10K! Were in a pretty rural area and the volunteer fire department takes an hour to get anywhere in the area. For those I was thinking a roof over each tank spread out over the 20 acres just for fire controI. I also considered only filling holding tank in garden area during our rainy season when the creek is rushing water. Thank you for your feedback! I really appreciate it!
Hi, Keith. Thanks for sharing this video. As always, I have some questions :) First, all sources in my language say that all spring blooming flowers should be splitted after they fade away. I wonder what is the key difference for these plants' vegetation if we do it before blooming? The same question in about garlic. I've googled for the answer but I didn't manage to find any information about that. And the second: how close to the tree stems do you plant those cloves? Why I'm asking is that I've read that the root system of the trees should never be disturbed, so is it okay to put the cloves in and out each season as close to the stem as you do (for example 23:30 minute of this video)? Thanks!
When a tree is really small, I am extra careful with planting in and around it. However once it get to be 4+ years old, the amount of soil disturbance by planting garlic near the tree is negligible to the entire root mass of the tree. I've split things like daylillies and daffodils before they bloom. The plant struggles a bit, but always recovered by the next year. Ideally, you would wait, but if you only have time before, then go and do it. I think it's more important to separate and spread them (in the long term). However, if you can wait, try to dig them up and split them just as their leaves are starting to wilt, as they prepare for the next season and go dormant. For some flowers that is in the fall, but for daffodils for example, that can be in April/May.
Tons of organic matter. This mulch. Also daikon radishes. Plant those everywhere let them grow and leave them in the ground. They will decompose and make worm casting piles in your soil. Daikon radishes are the clay busters of the plant kingdom.
It's called a root buster. If you look at my blog in the video description, it will take you to my favorite books. But in that blog page, I also have favorite tools, and its listed there.
Lilacs actually root poorly on older wood. But new wood (softwood) works well. For that reason, I recommend doing softwood cuttings to propagate them. See my video yesterday on the propagation addendum for hardwood and softwood cuttings and do them like that. They are a bit fussy so when I start talking about "taking it to the next level" do as much of that stuff as you can. I.e. instead of just jamming thebcuttings in the soil, out them in a sand, soil and perlite mix in a pot, keep the soil warm and moist. Cap the top of the cutting or put a plastic cover over the top of the pot to help keep moisture in. Remove the cover and put it back every now and then to give some air exchange.
Question- new bed creation, I did cardboard and big mounds of compost. Have planted spring things. Now- cover with straw, which I have? Or woodchips which I need to get doing, then plant clover or some other for chop and drop? I shouldn’t just let it go wild and consider it a green manure without woodchips down first?
I like to have a green mulch (living plants) but ideally they are themselves living covered by a brown carbon mulch. I.e. best of both worlds. For new beds, mulching is tricky because the plants are so fragile. So just do your best without damaging the plants, and as they get stronger and larger you will be able to add more then. And in the fall, you can add a lot and finish that bed out with a good 6 inch to 1 foot thick mulch layer. Then by next spring it will decompose down to half that thickness and you have an amazing bed.
Anytime really. They should spend a good year like that. So ideally you do it in the spring so they are ready next spring. However worst case if you do them in the fall, then next spring just have a peek and see what the rooting is like. Above ground, plants go to sleep in the winter, but the roots do not.
I may have missed it, but how long did it take to get the haskaps ready to divide with that extra root mass? What time of year did you add the mound to start the stool layering?
Yes that definitely works. Just don't leave it on too long, you want living organisms in your pile. You don't want to nuke them. Also, make sure it's not a water-barrier, if the pile dries out you'll kill everything also.
I am trying stool mounding with a purpose to propagate next spring. I did separate off some of the haskap plant like you mentioned and am hopeful it will take. My separated plants went into a new hugel bed I made. It the plants grow more roots when stool mounded would they not grow and have a much larger / deeper root ball if I mounded a new hugel bed all around the plant? In my mind it would make for a much stronger plant. Have you ever done anything like that?
As long as it doesn't interfere with your ability to remove the plant or branches in the spring, go for it. I would suspect they would love the fungal heavy soil for sure.
Curious why you plant soft neck garlic. Hardneck garlic is better suited to northern regions as far as I know although I don't know exactly where you are. Does that have anything to do with why you getting 1,000 out of 2,000 planted?
Yes, I mention right in the video about it, and also link to my comfrey video in that spot. It's where I mention rhubarb. I have modified the description of the video to include time stamps to each section. Thanks for the comment - it improved the description of the video :)
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Thank you very much. I could've missed it. I could not found comfrey plant or seeds in my country (sort of ironic we are really close to Russia). I was walking today in a street and i found a monster like comfrey plant just flowering below a tree. I will take some cuttings tomorrow and luckily i can start to accumulate some sweet nutrients this season like you. You helped me so much and if its okay i can send a clip of my garden too, to show you your direct influence in my garden. Thanks again, take care
Just remember that a wild comfrey like that will likely spread from seed. Not a problem if you ask me, but a lot of people do look for bocking 4 or 14 varieties because they are sterile from seed.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I am totally aware of that. I think i will just chop the flower heads off. Today i went there and get it. Chopping it made my hand all black though :(
I have Canadensis (the tree near the pond and the one large one in the main section), and a bunch of alnifolia 6 inch samplings planted last year (about 40 of them)
Okay so I have a question about the haskaps. I ordered some that just arrived a few days ago. (Yay) I’m in the process of hardening them off to plant. They’re little guys, but so stretched out, with leaves just at the tip. When I plant, could I bury them several inches above the existing root ball, can I expect to have more root growth for a stronger plant?
No don't bury the crown when they are young. The plant may do okay (this plant in particular), but you also open it up to an early death from some kind of fungal crown rot. Only bury them by stool mounding when the plant is strong and established.
I have been growing haskaps for 10 years. I have about 20 plants. When I first planted them I didn't plant them deep but recently I have learned that it is a good practice. Many plants will rot if panted too deep but that is not the case with haskaps. As is shown in this video haskaps will simply produce more roots and be stronger for it. I will be panting mine about 4 inches deeper than I have in the past.
I think diversity is the very core of healthy and resilient nature.. but I'm still glad to get a verification that my plan to get multiple varieties of every native plant I want to get (and then possibly cross-breed them in as many combinations as possible like some sort of crazy scientist to get even more variety) isn't as silly a plan as the anxious part of my brain wants to think :P Still.. do you think the cross-breeding is something I'd need to be very carefull of? What are the odds of accidentally creating an invasive variety?
I would say so low that you shouldn't worry about it. I think humanity needs more crazy scientists. Our genetic diversity of plants has collapsed in the last 200 years.
Blackberry isn't that dangerous because they like a certain pH. It's also native to North America. At least the East Coast i know out west its not great
It's easier to go after their aggressive rhizomes. They'll need to be maintained at some point anyway so might as well turn that waste product into a productive plant.
@@myronplatte8354 Sorry I commented before the edit. You want to know if its possible not optimal, right? Yes you can take cuttings. They be plugged right into the ground when pruned right. The only reason I would do this is for turning a single raspberry plant into nursery stock. You'll get more than you alone need through rhizomes alone though.
Yeah, like what Pale Ghost said, you CAN, but why bother? When a plant spreads via rhizome spreading suckers, it's just soooo much easier to dig each one out, sever the underground runner and plant. Same thing with strawberries and things that spread with overground runners. I'm sure there are many techniques that work, but the actual running is so prolific, just do it that way.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Makes sense, it's just that I had already planted some raspberries from cuttings, and I don't know how well they'll take. I guess I'll go dig up some rhizomes, than.
I cant believe your woodchips are still frozen because even in WINNIPEG the soil has been almost completely thawed for a couple weeks now... that is until this morning when i looked outside and saw about 3 inches of snow lol
Would you mind telling me what Winnipeg is like from your perspective? I was considering emigrating there before pandemic hit since it's "right up the road" from me and city size is similar.
@@PaleGhost69 like just in general as a place to live? I mean I like it here, winters get cold but definitely a decent place to live. We have some pretty nice parks and areas to go in the summer, the red river is turned into a huge skating rink in the winter so theres always things to do. I havnt been able to interact with people since 2019 but from what i remember most people are pretty nice lol. public transit can be pretty shitty if youre used to something from a bigger city though
Somehow I’ve missed what a Hazcap is. I may be spelling it wrong too. Can anyone help me out? Is it a black raspberry or a blueberry ? I would appreciate any info on this. Thanks so much
Check out my "top 6 bushes for your food forest", its in there. Haskaps (honeyberry) are part of the honeysuckle family Caprifoliaceae. Haskaps are Lonicera Caerulea.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I fell down a UA-cam rabbit hole yesterday. Police audits are kind of addictive... First video out of 14 that wasn't one lol
Im so sick of beIng told not to use pvc in irrigation of edible garden with no recommendation for substitute. Copper is too expensive for the lengths needed.
thanks for the video! gardening can't help but be a generous hobby. plants replicate by nature and practically force you to give them or their fruits away. I hope you are wearing sunscreen in your videos. get a big hat. skin cancer is awful and I hope you get to enjoy your old man trail for many years.
I've been propagating with different methods, seeds, bulbs, scales (on oriental lilies), stratification of chestnuts, pawpaw, cuttings on currents, elderberry and simple airlayering. Maybe I've heard about stool laying before and just didn'tremember??? Anyway I did learn something new and definitely will be working this into what I do.
Stool layering is suddenly simple to understand. Thanks
it's amazing to me to see frozen soil, I live in caribbean
Great with someone in the northern hemisphere...warm in the air but frozen compost here in Stockholm Sweden 🤗👍
Yep, my woodchip pile is still frozen. Some gardens in the backyard are still frozen.
I would be estatic if I saw this many garlic bulbs coming up..yes! I need2 transfer my dafadil plants too.thanks4 the reminder! cheers from Australia. 😁
Oh, that puppy is so sweet
She has turned into the best dog. So smart!
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy if she’s a border collie, then that is not a surprise. Thanks for your great videos BTW!!
Aussie Sheppard, also not a surprise 😀 Very smart doggos
great video! perfect timing for me in Sydney Australia. 😁
You are my kind of geek. We like the same kind of cool apparently. Keep up the good work.
HAHA thanks
Not sure if it was mentioned, but if a plant has a patent you can’t propagate and sell the plants, but you can propagate plants for yourself.
Love propagating plants. I just started Haskaps last year and they look good this spring.
I think I have to move filberts as I have them too close together and I think they spread/sucker. Planted European and now I see they are working on American hybrids. They take a long time to produce.
Sup, just wanted to say I discovered your channel last week and it's absolutely precious. You're gardening in a difficult northern climate, ramble a lot (both apply to myself as well) and most importantly you display a huge amount of knowledge and enthusiasm about growing food. And the dry humour helps a lot too ;) keep it up!
Welcome aboard! Thanks so much.
Great video. Thank you!
Love your point about putting low maintenance crops in parts of the garden you don’t visit as often!
Stool Mound 2' high wow. Glad u mentioned the specifics. Very helpful video, always find you to be encouraging of the Simplicity of how others can do. Many UA-camrs I think just want to conflate lots of info to boost their ego.
Awesome, thank you! I completely agree!
It amazes me that you can remember all the different plants in your system. I’d need to spend a lot of time labeling everything.
This is something that just builds over time. It's surprising what a few years of paying attention constantly does.
It might be a fun experiment next winter to make a compost pile big enough it doesnt freeze.
Partially burying it, and covering it with straw would probably help.
We were -45C to -55C for 2 weeks this winter....I don't think it is possible where I live😄
@@ritalynb7070 you can it just has to huge.
Finally someone talks about the importance of genetic diversity while cloning plants! We got strawberry propagation taken care of by growing them from seed, and it's interesting seeing all the slight differences in the plants, almost imperceptible, hopefully when we start crossing a wider range, things will really start looking interesting~
Yeah this is super important. Glad you enjoyed it. It really really is a big deal.
Using the water to expose the roots was very cool! First time I'm learning about mound propogating. Looking forward to doing this with my largest blueberry bush.
Blackberries are one of our favorites, but we are definitely in an area (PNW-Idaho) where they can take over. 🤣
I'm still waiting for the snow to be gone to start my first year on my new property. Got plenty of seeds starting and cuttings rooting in pots indoors.
For currants and many other bushes you should have a pretty good success rate if you just cut the new growth whips and stick them into soil and keep watered, so you don't have top do radical mesaures like digging up the whole mother plant. You can easily get a dozen cuttings, and even if half of them fail, you still got a bunch of easy free clones!
Absolutely! The currants and elderberries in particular did really well like that last year. I believe I have some footage of this kind of cutting/plugging in my grass to swale video. Found some of it, I'm sure there's more, but here's a timestamp: ua-cam.com/video/evwRPvcD6Qg/v-deo.html
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Haha, yeah like that exactly. I wouldn't have the heart to dig up a perfectly good producing bush unless I was actually moving it.
Hey Keith! While I am still getting over how stark your food forest looks in the Winter (and you still remember what is what), I am really quite excited for your first show of color. I have mini-daffodils in flower and yellow is my favorite color even in large amongst large blocks of weeds. If you want to tease roots apart that are bound by soil, then soaking them in water can be a big help. Man I hope your dog takes an interest in UA-cam real soon because these one man productions must be killing you. Cheers!
They say Aussie Shephards are some of the smartest dogs on the planet. So we're going to start training her how to do video editing in Sony Vegas Pro V18.
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i really liked this video
I appreciate it Curtis!
Your gardening shoes are just like mine. Dad shoes
Yeah lol those are something like 12 years old. They have almost no bottoms, holes everywhere. My wife laughs at me because she'll buy me new shoes and I'll just still wear those ones. But why not, they work. I mean, kinda.
Love the music
Thanks!
Great info, as usual. Thanks.
We’re doing this on the land we are living on going on 7 years. We took what was here and divided it to propagate it. And we allowed all the wild tree seeds to grow to help nitrogenate the soil. Then the goats helped contain them and regenerate the earth. Now we have a very fertile Avocado forest lol... we need a stick that reaches 30+ feet to reach the avocados🤦🏻♀️🌳🥑 My husband thinks he can make one out of a bamboo shoot! 😂 Love the new artistic intro on this video too!! That really makes the channel stand out 🙌☺️ Shared your video with Jonna Jinton’s group. They’re loving it 😁
Thanks! You can never make everyone happy because on reddit someone said: "... a production tip- if the music is poor quality, just go with silence. A couple seconds of the music and I felt a headache start, I could not watch."
I personally really enjoyed that part. Can't please everyone I suppose. Glad you liked it. End of the day, if I enjoyed making it that's all that matters to me to be honest. The video did really well in terms of many metrics such as view time, so I think overall most people did enjoy it.
For music, I'm trying to cut back on using it, but videos with just a dude in a garden swinging his phone around with no music ends up looking amateurish. It just does. I'm slowly getting better at this (I think), but a big part is knowing WHEN to add music and when not to. I think sometimes nature scenes with just birds chirping are amazing and I will always do that. However, the drone only takes video, so not using music in the background just seems weird.
So I think I'll keep doing little "artistic" segments like this - in the beginning, in the middle, at the end and just play around with it. My job is very technical (engineering) so these videos are actually a really nice creative outlet that I'm enjoying exploring a bit. Thanks for the comment, I'm happy at least someone else liked that bit.
Oh and I also REALLY appreciate you sharing the channel with other groups. That probably helps more than anything, more than patreon, more than joining the membership program, etc.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Ahahaha tell that person on reddit I’m a musician, a music therapist & a psychologist and your intro song is rad and that person is sad! Ahahaha You really gotta go with what YOU like! You will transmit your joy to the videos!! Which translates into new followers. For every intolerable person there are 20 of us who value your vides and value your creativity. It’s fun! Never be afraid to share your talent to the world.
So some music feedback hoping to help: Ok it will be inevitable for you to use music because you are a creative person! Your engeneering background is purely intellectual. And that’s great. Speaking with silence from the garden is perfect. And with the nature sounds. The frogs, the birds…everything but the dogs lol… The left lobe of the brain is activated by that intellectual aspect. But the music activates the right side, the creative side! Thus: Full brain usage!
You can stick to the intro, the transitions where you place words, the transitions where you show drone footage, or garden footage without speaking (for example if you are pouring water on something or your family pops in, etc). You can never go wrong with piano. Not jazz, that really irritates the mind and is terrible for learning or enjoying an informational video. There is a TON of awesome music on www.epidemicsound.com/. It is $15 a month but you could ask that dude from Reddit to pay? :D
Seriously, just practice ad do what you like ;) You can never go wrong there!
Check out the acoustic Guitar songs from this artist. The entire video has awesome music and she downloads it from Epidemic Sound. She’s from Norway you guys will enjoy the scenery: ua-cam.com/video/3_Rw3PmEw_Q/v-deo.html
Honestly thanks so much, I appreciate the feedback so much, especially from someone who's passion is in that specific area. Maybe you can be my music mentor lol.
I actually love piano. I played until I was in grade 5 i think. I hit the grade where you can get a high-school music credit. I then picked up guitar to play Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd stuff. But my love has always stayed in piano. It's on my bucket list to pick it back up.
Thank you Kieth. Propagating is obviously cost effective and has the potential to build the food forest. Another great video! Every time I watch I learn something new. Glad to know ahead of time I’d need two or more varieties to get better fruit. Now I need to as Professor Google how many varieties of Haskap exist in Ontario😉
Haha! Good luck
I had great results with stooling apple rootstock by cutting the bottom out of a plastic bucket (more eco friendly alternatives available...?), putting it over the main stem and filling it to the top with compost as the stems grew. In winter I then pulled the bucket off and the compost just fell off the rooted stems! Then you just snip the stems off at ground level and start again. May need modification for bushes but if you can find a suitable container to go round it you should be able to leave your prize haskap mother plant in place? Going to try it on juneberries this year!
Yes this is called Air layering (which I for some reason called Air Mounding I think? My brain was thinking one thing, mouth saying something else). I mentioned it in the video when I was talking about genetic diversity in the middle of the video. I didn't show it because I'm not doing any right now, but it's a great method for rooting trees especially.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy pls show us, when you do end up doing it, I am a visual,learner. That didn't totally compute with me🤪👍🏼
I think that the hascap propagation is awesome! They are very expensive here in Newfoundland where I live so propagation will be key! Also, after watching one of your other videos last night seeing how unshredded leaves block out O2 from the soil I ran out today (only around -1 today and ground not frozen), I used pitchfork to air-rate the 6inches or so of leaves on my bed. The bed's lack organic matter (acid/dry/rocky/peaty) so trying to add more organic matter. I picked up about 50 bags of leaves back in November but due to a very wet Fall, could not shred them. Thanks for all the tips!
Awesome good work
Looking great! Hopefully next year I can use these tips.
Excellent advice! Thanks
Excellent video! I would love to see a video explaining how to prune fruit trees and also one about growing fruit and nut trees from seed. If you have time of course!
If you search my channel by "prune, pruning" you will find a good 4-5 videos in depth on the topic!
Thanks for showing the haskaps, i feel very relieved seeing the loose bark on your healthy ones as i feared mine may have died over winter as i planted my first(4 varieties)last fall and they all look similar.
Yeah it's just their look. These plants are some of my healthiest looking plants come the spring/summer. Such a nice deep green.
You do have a lot of gold information. Thank you for sharing.
I'm building a homestead in ontario and unfortunately I will have to move to a biger land because of the ridiculous by law that the township have on my area. I have over 6 acres and they did not allow me to build a 60x200 greenhouse.
OMG that's insane. It's crazy how we allow such control on our lands. The problem is, most people don't care enough anymore to lobby government for change. We just shrug and move on. It's hard to get real change going when most people are so complacent. My old property was in an area where you couldn't have chickens, food gardens in the front lawn, etc. People would call bylaw on you. Thankfully a little further in the country and its better. Here at least. I know some areas are different. You are on more land than me, and for someone to say you can't have a greenhouse... crazy. You probably already have an outbuilding and you are only allowed one?
I jammed some jostaberry cuttings in the ground in the late winter, should see if they take soon (will have to try mounding some time). Overall, our yard is a little further along than yours, but not by much. Our ribes are pretty awake and most of the fruit trees are awake (either blooming or leafing out). Our serviceberry is about at the same point in budding out. Apples are just starting to size up their buds.
I need to put out more daffodils, most of ours are midseason or later. We had a bunch of crocus, but the rabbits dug up and ate all the bulbs (whoops haha). I'll have to see if the rabbits will eat garlic or rhubarb if I put it out in the yard. Guess it depends on how hungry they are... they'll eat the tops off of flowering onions in our back yard. They leave the daffodils alone so I'm quite content putting those everywhere.
I'd recommend having some seedling varieties in the garden too. We have seedling american plums and manchurian apricots here, excellent for pollination. I'll probably graft some other varieties onto them when they get larger.
When you say to get more plants to diversify genetics, I think you meant more plants from different sources? 10 plants (of the same type) from one source are likely all the same genetics. I just found your channel, I appreciate you are open about it being an experiment. Thank you for sharing.
I meant when you get apples, don't just get gala because you like them, get some gala and some spartan and some honeycrisp, etc. It spreads out the bloom and harvest time.
For stuff like haskaps, don't just get boreal. Get blizzard and beauty and beast and arctic and many different varieties. Many plants, berries especially, will crop larger if pollinated from genetically different plants.
For trees like paw paws, they ONLY crop if pollinated by a different variety.
So try to diversify not only the kind of fruit, but also the specific varieties of those fruit. Obviously this is easier the more space someone has, but just try to do whatever you can.
It sure helps when your harvests are spread out.
I'm in Saskatchewan....nothing blooming or even breaking soil in my space yet. Rhubarb hasn't even broken surface yet. Snow still on the ground. Forecast is +3C & +4C for a high this week! (-9C at night). Usually don't split plants until May....I have a LOT of irises to split this year!!!
Your garden is basically at the same point as mine. I am just waiting for a couple dry days so I can get out doing these things.
I saw a haskap bush at the farmer's market, this channel got me so hyped up I asked too many questions and got it half off with an armful of baby strawberry plants as well. It's already got little fruits on it (Zone 9b), can't wait to try it.
I wonder if it will make babies with my blueberry bush...
No haskap/blueberry babies, haskaps are actually in the honeysuckle species (Lonicera spp.)
Zone 9b is also really pushing it, they tend to be grown up in zone 8 (which is pushing it). I'm curious how they will do, and if they will have enough chill hours to fruit.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I never expected to see any haskaps this far south, but it's a 2yo bush and the sellers seemed to be having enough success raising them. My town on the bay has infamously cloudier and shittier weather than the surrounding area, maybe she'll be happy here long-term in spite of the official zone designation.
2000 heads of garlic! my man :) i thought i grew a crazy amount at 200 lol. you need to build yourself a roadside farm stand and i hope the wife is Italian
It just keeps coming up. I planted 200 about 3 years ago, and I thought I got it all (each year, I think this but each spring I find out just how wrong I was). So then each spring I take these clumps and spread them about, but then I miss half of them again, etc.
Some clumps this year I actually planted at the school. I'm curious if they'll know what it is. I just had too many.
Garlic just looks like a slightly bluer, heavier grass. Foxtail has some red around the stems and the purple of garlic is kind of the same, so it's most likely the garlic will be mistaken for another variety of grass.
Very informative - great content! Are you able to grow ginger?
No, not as a perennial. We have to keep digging it up each year.
If you're worried about the haskaps with fewer roots, maybe prune the tops a little. Might give them more of a chance to recover. Not a pro but have picked up that idea along the way. Not sure if it'll work here.
Yeah I should probably cut them back to 1-2 buds on each branch ajd just fully reset it and let it build roots this year with lower transpiration loss from leaves.
Yesterday I was inspecting one of my blackberries that had tip layered itself and discovered that something had eaten the roots of the mother plant! I'm thinking I'll leave it connected by that umbilical cane and see if it can re-root the mother (now that I've filled the void where the roots had been), but I'm not sure if that will work 🤔
Oooh now that's interesting. I don't think I actually know if that will work that way (I'm thinking not) but I'd be really interested to know if it does.
Believe it or not, I checked in on that blackberry yesterday and the mother plant has re-rooted and it's reinvigorating a second cane on the mother that I had presumed dead, but must've been dormant (and probably hanging on by a thread)
I just started last fall. I will add only 1 or 2 more trees because space is scarce on my 5/8 acer(40-50 fruit and nut trees). I need to start on my guilds, 1 variety of tree at a time. Hope i don't just end up with a weed patch
How do you feel about the serviceberry fruit? I've never had it and have been curious about adding it to my collection. I've heard that it's kind of like blueberry meets almond?
You didn't mention pull sprouts/sprout jacking, which is the propagation method that I'm most excited about. Kind of a happy coincidence that you did a propagation video, since the video I'm putting out this week is on pull sprouts. Stoked about using that method to rapidly propagate my relatively rare Incan crops. Gonna be a game changer for my nursery, too!
I've never done pull sprouts or air layering so those methods weren't in the video. I will try them though, ajd check out your video on it. I have watched a few of your vids.
For serviceberry there is a huge difference in variety. For example Amelanchier Canadensis is largely a bird tree. The berries are still quite good but quite small, 1cm diameter, actually maybe smaller. A bit mealy but really tasty still. Almost impossible to get a ripe one, the birds pick them clean immediately. These berries may not appeal to the average person who only knows stuff like blueberries and strawberries and super sweet fruit.
Amelanchier Alnifolia (aka Saskatoon berry) has fruit almost double the size, and is very good tasting. Someone who only knows super sweet fruit would still very much enjoy these.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Thanks for the info! I might start with alnifolia because of the broader appeal and then branch into canadensis as I'm ready to start playing around a bit more, or when I can afford to feed to birds exclusively. 🤣
Stoked to hear that you've watched some of my stuff! I'd love if you have any feedback for me, given how much further along you are on this UA-cam journey. No pressure, though. Just if there's anything obvious that comes to mind. I was finally able to upgrade my mic, so super excited that I can cut all the wind noise!
Great video content!! I hope it's not rude to ask / mention...but did you get a new camera? When you pan around it's very dizzying now. I hadn't noticed it in prior videos. Just a heads up from a viewer perspective... :)
I'm not sure why it was so bad this time, I noticed that also. I'm not sure if it was on youtube post-processing side of things, because when I was in my editor it wasn't as choppy.
I will definitely make a conscious effort to stop walking around with my phone and talking, but more set up the shot, talk, set up another shot, talk, etc. It is much better. Something I have definitely learned.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Thanks! I'd hate to create extra work... hahaha. You are already doing such a great job. :)
What kind of shovel did you use to dig up the Hascap bush?
It's called a "root slayer" spade. It's the best thing I've ever bought.
There are a couple of other plants that I would be interested to see how you propagate out. High bush blueberry, gooseberry, goji berry, Saskatoon berry, and cherry bushes(specifically the Romance series). Do you propagate those as well? I am thinking of pods of haskaps this year. Plant my 5 varietals in groups for little pods of 6 weeks of production. I am all about the extended season using multiple cultivars of the same fruit. Gotta feed the growing boys and walking them through the orchard to fill them up sounds ideal to me.
I tried rooting softwood cuttings of my four currant varietals last year and am hoping for some success this year.
Thank you for the wonderful video. I have read about stool mounding but had not seen a video of it.
I only have 3 blueberries and they don't do well in my soil, not propagating. Stool mounding works though. Same with gooseberry, cherry and goji.
For Saskatoons, stool mounding will work if the plants are in bush shape. Sometimes they are shaped like trees with only 1-3 major branches coming out. Sometimes they are more like bushes with 8+. If they are more tree-like then stool mounding obviously isn't ideal. For those I would do either hardwood cuttings, softwood cuttings, or seed saving. I don't have a video on hardwood/softwood cuttings mostly because I'm not really doing them that much right now. I'm really set for trees - I wouldn't even know where to put them to be honest. Maybe I'll try some in a few years for the old man walking trail, when it's ready to be planted out.
My elderberry sort of does this. This is my second year with slider berry and I have a bunch of new growth at the bottom.
I actually haven't tried stool mounding elderberries yet. I think I'll try it this coming year. That being said, when I pruned them last fall I just plugged cuttings into the ground and I got nearly 90% or higher success rate from them. So maybe that's the ideal method for those, it's even easier.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I can confirm that Elderberry does great by just sticking them in the mud. They are easy.
My next video looks at this method (plugging hardwood cuttings), and even looks at some elderberry cuttings from last April and how they are doing 1 year later.
I bough a couple peach and plum trees this year and pruned them after planting. So i stuck the branches in the ground and most of them struck roots and started blooming and pushing leaves
Often that's a sign of moisture still residual in the branches. Once that dries out, then you'll know if the cutting can continue sustaining itself (if it rooted). The success rate for peaches especially is really low like this. If someone wants to make it more successful, you can try to put it in an area with warm soil but cool environment. So something like in a basement or garage with a seed heat mat under it. The heat will help the rooting speed up, and the cool temps will keep the plant from waking up and leafing out. Ideally it spends as long as possible as a stick in soil, so that it can make roots before it starts losing water via transpiration through the leaves. Even upwards of half a year like this is good.
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How do you know when it’s ready to be taken out of the basement and planted? While it’s in the basement does the plant need a light source, such as a grow light?
i've done it before with gooseberries. cut branches in the fall and stick them in the dirt. next year about 50-60% will survive
It doesn't need much light until it leafs out. Once it leads out then it should be under lights or brought outside.
The cool garage is an attempt to delay leafing out.
Currants and gooseberries will root really easily from cuttings.
It is 'said' that Cherry trees will root from cuttings (I'm trying that out from prunings taken last Autumn, so I don't know yet if this is successful yet), and I have seen a video of someone taking apple tree cuttings (in pots with polythene bags over top), the gardener showing good results afterwards.
I don't think there is any reason why you shouldn't try turning any sort of pruning into a cutting (I'm a serial cutting-taker myself and always put prunings to the test). Yes, it is very true, residual moisture will make the vast majority of 'fruit cuttings' bloom, push leaves, and give the impression they have rooted - only for them to succumb to late Spring sun.
However...that said...
I have had a few successes over the years. My very first success was when I was a kid and stuck a twig of a rare Shepherd's Bullace in the ground (an Olde Worlde British plant, like a small golden Victoria Plum) in my parent's garden. It was my first cutting ever, done in jest, and it grew to 20ft before my parents moved and I last saw it.
Where I live now, I've raised about half a dozen new Hazel trees, a few new sloes for the hedgerow, and even one Alder tree - all from prunings transformed into hardwood cuttings.
What makes a handful of Hazel cuttings work and thousands of others fail, I don't know. Never been able to work it out. The first Hazel success was a 4 inch cutting - the last was a 3 ft long branch and merely stuck in the ground to steady a fence. The latter has been growing well for 3 years now.
Nature is weird.
Currently, I have about 3500 cuttings in the ground mostly taken from various fruit, but also some ornamental and hedging plants. The latter 2 categories rarely fail to strike roots, but I quite expect a few fruit/Hazel plants to succeed as well.
Quite honestly, if you're willing to take the time and can happily shrug off many or the whole lot failing, it's fine. Do it.
Hey! Love your channel! I'm in the mountains of upper east Tennessee. I noticed you hauling water, as we do here also. I have many thoughts on directing the creek with pipe to several catchment systems up hill from the areas. We have planted the low maintenance trees on the forest edges. I am currently observing our "cleared area" scraped back to clay, how the water flows and where to berm and swale. Getting back to the point. Do you have any catchment systems? Like holding tanks and pipe, gravity fed from up creek? I love the pond addition! Thanks so much!❤🌎✌
I do have a little sump buddy pump that I can hook up if I need to get more water, but I almost never use it. Hauling water jugs is my gym membership.
As far as diverting local waterways, I think it's a pretty risky business. Definitely square that up with your local conservation authority first. You will be impacting lands below you, and could wipe out entire ecosystems. You could also divert watersheds away from areas and towards others. Both of these can have really large ecological consequences.
Now, obviously just doing this in a really small way won't impact things. Dipping a pump in and filling a micro pond over 10 minutes by stealing 2% of the flow for those 10 mins, that obviously is a lot different than digging in a permanent tap-off of the stream for example.
I did consider the impact downhill. Luckily we have several spring heads that feed the creek above me, and a spring head on our property which we plan on using as our water source for the house. Stone mountain is brutal on well digging and starting cost is 10K! Were in a pretty rural area and the volunteer fire department takes an hour to get anywhere in the area. For those I was thinking a roof over each tank spread out over the 20 acres just for fire controI. I also considered only filling holding tank in garden area during our rainy season when the creek is rushing water. Thank you for your feedback! I really appreciate it!
Hi, Keith. Thanks for sharing this video.
As always, I have some questions :)
First, all sources in my language say that all spring blooming flowers should be splitted after they fade away. I wonder what is the key difference for these plants' vegetation if we do it before blooming? The same question in about garlic. I've googled for the answer but I didn't manage to find any information about that.
And the second: how close to the tree stems do you plant those cloves? Why I'm asking is that I've read that the root system of the trees should never be disturbed, so is it okay to put the cloves in and out each season as close to the stem as you do (for example 23:30 minute of this video)? Thanks!
When a tree is really small, I am extra careful with planting in and around it. However once it get to be 4+ years old, the amount of soil disturbance by planting garlic near the tree is negligible to the entire root mass of the tree.
I've split things like daylillies and daffodils before they bloom. The plant struggles a bit, but always recovered by the next year. Ideally, you would wait, but if you only have time before, then go and do it. I think it's more important to separate and spread them (in the long term). However, if you can wait, try to dig them up and split them just as their leaves are starting to wilt, as they prepare for the next season and go dormant. For some flowers that is in the fall, but for daffodils for example, that can be in April/May.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Thanks for your answers! :)
@@joannewolfe5688 Thanks!
Any advice on growing in thick clay soil?
Tons of organic matter. This mulch. Also daikon radishes. Plant those everywhere let them grow and leave them in the ground. They will decompose and make worm casting piles in your soil. Daikon radishes are the clay busters of the plant kingdom.
What is the technical specifications for the style of shovel you used to dig up the haskap? I've never seen one that narrow.
It's called a root buster. If you look at my blog in the video description, it will take you to my favorite books. But in that blog page, I also have favorite tools, and its listed there.
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Can you stool mound blueberries?
I wondered that too
Absolutely. I believe many people do softwood cuttings for them though. My next video will discuss this.
I have a bunch of lilacs that that I would like to propagate. Would you recommend stool layering lilacs?
Lilacs actually root poorly on older wood. But new wood (softwood) works well. For that reason, I recommend doing softwood cuttings to propagate them. See my video yesterday on the propagation addendum for hardwood and softwood cuttings and do them like that.
They are a bit fussy so when I start talking about "taking it to the next level" do as much of that stuff as you can. I.e. instead of just jamming thebcuttings in the soil, out them in a sand, soil and perlite mix in a pot, keep the soil warm and moist. Cap the top of the cutting or put a plastic cover over the top of the pot to help keep moisture in. Remove the cover and put it back every now and then to give some air exchange.
Question- new bed creation, I did cardboard and big mounds of compost. Have planted spring things. Now- cover with straw, which I have? Or woodchips which I need to get doing, then plant clover or some other for chop and drop? I shouldn’t just let it go wild and consider it a green manure without woodchips down first?
I like to have a green mulch (living plants) but ideally they are themselves living covered by a brown carbon mulch. I.e. best of both worlds.
For new beds, mulching is tricky because the plants are so fragile. So just do your best without damaging the plants, and as they get stronger and larger you will be able to add more then. And in the fall, you can add a lot and finish that bed out with a good 6 inch to 1 foot thick mulch layer. Then by next spring it will decompose down to half that thickness and you have an amazing bed.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy thank you so much. I so appreciate what you share.
Did you say when to stool layer the haskaps? I’m in Waterloo. I was thinking to mound up the soil after the berries are done?
Anytime really. They should spend a good year like that. So ideally you do it in the spring so they are ready next spring. However worst case if you do them in the fall, then next spring just have a peek and see what the rooting is like. Above ground, plants go to sleep in the winter, but the roots do not.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Thanks, I’ll give it a try this year.
I may have missed it, but how long did it take to get the haskaps ready to divide with that extra root mass? What time of year did you add the mound to start the stool layering?
Around year 4 we started.
Will the creeping thyme spread over wood chips?
Yep, it already is. I dug some up and its pushing its roots right into the woodchips even!
Also frozen compost and wood chips, black plastic covering over piles help with solar heating?
Yes that definitely works. Just don't leave it on too long, you want living organisms in your pile. You don't want to nuke them. Also, make sure it's not a water-barrier, if the pile dries out you'll kill everything also.
Good to know, thank you!
I am trying stool mounding with a purpose to propagate next spring. I did separate off some of the haskap plant like you mentioned and am hopeful it will take. My separated plants went into a new hugel bed I made. It the plants grow more roots when stool mounded would they not grow and have a much larger / deeper root ball if I mounded a new hugel bed all around the plant? In my mind it would make for a much stronger plant. Have you ever done anything like that?
As long as it doesn't interfere with your ability to remove the plant or branches in the spring, go for it. I would suspect they would love the fungal heavy soil for sure.
Just came in from moving 20 or so raspberries from the chicken run into the garden.
Curious why you plant soft neck garlic. Hardneck garlic is better suited to northern regions as far as I know although I don't know exactly where you are. Does that have anything to do with why you getting 1,000 out of 2,000 planted?
The first year I bought softneck and I just keep propagating it. I should really swap over to hard neck.
Does Hascap have thorns?
Nope 😀
Great video! I will try some of them this year. I have a question though. Is it possible to propagate comfrey from cuttings? Thank you
Yes, I mention right in the video about it, and also link to my comfrey video in that spot. It's where I mention rhubarb. I have modified the description of the video to include time stamps to each section. Thanks for the comment - it improved the description of the video :)
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Thank you very much. I could've missed it. I could not found comfrey plant or seeds in my country (sort of ironic we are really close to Russia). I was walking today in a street and i found a monster like comfrey plant just flowering below a tree. I will take some cuttings tomorrow and luckily i can start to accumulate some sweet nutrients this season like you. You helped me so much and if its okay i can send a clip of my garden too, to show you your direct influence in my garden. Thanks again, take care
Just remember that a wild comfrey like that will likely spread from seed. Not a problem if you ask me, but a lot of people do look for bocking 4 or 14 varieties because they are sterile from seed.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I am totally aware of that. I think i will just chop the flower heads off. Today i went there and get it. Chopping it made my hand all black though :(
Do you have any experience cloning aronia melanocarpa? Or does it not grow in your zone?
For some reason I just can't find any. I'm also slowly running out of room, so I may never get any. But no, no experience with it.
Namaskaram,
Which serviceberry variety do you have?
I have Canadensis (the tree near the pond and the one large one in the main section), and a bunch of alnifolia 6 inch samplings planted last year (about 40 of them)
Okay so I have a question about the haskaps. I ordered some that just arrived a few days ago. (Yay) I’m in the process of hardening them off to plant. They’re little guys, but so stretched out, with leaves just at the tip. When I plant, could I bury them several inches above the existing root ball, can I expect to have more root growth for a stronger plant?
No don't bury the crown when they are young. The plant may do okay (this plant in particular), but you also open it up to an early death from some kind of fungal crown rot. Only bury them by stool mounding when the plant is strong and established.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Thank you!
I have been growing haskaps for 10 years. I have about 20 plants. When I first planted them I didn't plant them deep but recently I have learned that it is a good practice. Many plants will rot if panted too deep but that is not the case with haskaps. As is shown in this video haskaps will simply produce more roots and be stronger for it. I will be panting mine about 4 inches deeper than I have in the past.
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I think diversity is the very core of healthy and resilient nature.. but I'm still glad to get a verification that my plan to get multiple varieties of every native plant I want to get (and then possibly cross-breed them in as many combinations as possible like some sort of crazy scientist to get even more variety) isn't as silly a plan as the anxious part of my brain wants to think :P
Still.. do you think the cross-breeding is something I'd need to be very carefull of? What are the odds of accidentally creating an invasive variety?
I would say so low that you shouldn't worry about it. I think humanity needs more crazy scientists. Our genetic diversity of plants has collapsed in the last 200 years.
alright, crazy scientist cross breeding it is.
Kudzu is one of those dangerous spreaders. The plant that ate the south.
And also fully edible, every part of it!
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I think that’s what they’re encouraging ppl to do to halt it. That and deploying herds of goats. Lol
Blackberry isn't that dangerous because they like a certain pH. It's also native to North America. At least the East Coast i know out west its not great
Can you take cuttings from raspberries? I mean, do they take well?
It's easier to go after their aggressive rhizomes. They'll need to be maintained at some point anyway so might as well turn that waste product into a productive plant.
@@PaleGhost69 Ok.
@@myronplatte8354 Sorry I commented before the edit. You want to know if its possible not optimal, right? Yes you can take cuttings. They be plugged right into the ground when pruned right. The only reason I would do this is for turning a single raspberry plant into nursery stock. You'll get more than you alone need through rhizomes alone though.
Yeah, like what Pale Ghost said, you CAN, but why bother? When a plant spreads via rhizome spreading suckers, it's just soooo much easier to dig each one out, sever the underground runner and plant. Same thing with strawberries and things that spread with overground runners. I'm sure there are many techniques that work, but the actual running is so prolific, just do it that way.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Makes sense, it's just that I had already planted some raspberries from cuttings, and I don't know how well they'll take. I guess I'll go dig up some rhizomes, than.
I cant believe your woodchips are still frozen because even in WINNIPEG the soil has been almost completely thawed for a couple weeks now... that is until this morning when i looked outside and saw about 3 inches of snow lol
Would you mind telling me what Winnipeg is like from your perspective? I was considering emigrating there before pandemic hit since it's "right up the road" from me and city size is similar.
@@PaleGhost69 like just in general as a place to live? I mean I like it here, winters get cold but definitely a decent place to live. We have some pretty nice parks and areas to go in the summer, the red river is turned into a huge skating rink in the winter so theres always things to do. I havnt been able to interact with people since 2019 but from what i remember most people are pretty nice lol. public transit can be pretty shitty if youre used to something from a bigger city though
@@groovytony277 I appreciate you taking the time to answer. The only information I found before was from sources trying to sell something.
Do you have deers? They destroying my orchard.
Somehow I’ve missed what a Hazcap is. I may be spelling it wrong too. Can anyone help me out? Is it a black raspberry or a blueberry ? I would appreciate any info on this. Thanks so much
Check out my "top 6 bushes for your food forest", its in there. Haskaps (honeyberry) are part of the honeysuckle family Caprifoliaceae. Haskaps are Lonicera Caerulea.
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Perfect! Thank you!
Aw, man! I almost got the first comment!
I'm surprised Pale Ghost hasn't commented yet. They are first 99% of the time! lol
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I fell down a UA-cam rabbit hole yesterday. Police audits are kind of addictive... First video out of 14 that wasn't one lol
@@PaleGhost69 I love the audits, too.
Im so sick of beIng told not to use pvc in irrigation of edible garden with no recommendation for substitute. Copper is too expensive for the lengths needed.
Check out my complete guide to plastics in the garden. If you search my channel for "plastic" it should come right up.
thanks for the video! gardening can't help but be a generous hobby. plants replicate by nature and practically force you to give them or their fruits away.
I hope you are wearing sunscreen in your videos. get a big hat. skin cancer is awful and I hope you get to enjoy your old man trail for many years.
That's a good point. I never do. I really need to start.
I've been propagating with different methods, seeds, bulbs, scales (on oriental lilies), stratification of chestnuts, pawpaw, cuttings on currents, elderberry and simple airlayering. Maybe I've heard about stool laying before and just didn'tremember??? Anyway I did learn something new and definitely will be working this into what I do.
That's great!